Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
There’s no place like home for the holidays. This is particularly true when it’s a gorgeous country home, like these five properties from Ebby Halliday Realtors. These houses define luxury living in North Texas, with high-end amenities, beautiful outdoor spaces, and a true country setting that will make your holidays this year one for the…
Let’s say you are going to put your home on the market. You want to know what to list it for, so your realtor suggests getting an appraisal. Good deal. The appraiser comes over, measures for square footage, notes the type of floor coverings and windows, asks about updates. Then he or she takes a…
The Wall Street Journal’s take on the Dallas Police and Fire pension crisis was way more accurate than what the New York Times ran. The Times blamed the fund’s real estate assets too much. They are peripheral: Retirement systems around the country are wrestling with how much risk to take as they try to fill…
Watchdog.org is a great site to read (and subscribe to) for nitty gritty (gritty) fiscal news. Doing a little search, back in 2011, Watchdog ran this headline: Pension reformers warn of looming breaking point, cite governments’ ‘actuarial bullshit’ That was when legislators in tiny Rhode island voted overwhelmingly to remove pension benefits from all its employees…
Above the fold, which means full media attention: the NYT story heads that “Dallas is staring down a Texas-sized bankruptcy”, and it opines how the city with “the fastest economic growth of the nation’s 13 largest cities” could be, well, Detroit. Yeah, good question. Its streets hum with supersize cars and its skyline bristles with…
